Tag: Nagoya

Twenty-two officers at a central Japan prison repeatedly assaulted inmates from November last year to this August by spraying their f ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government is set to raise defence spending by 1 trillion yen ($7.34 billion) to around 6.5 trillion yen in the next fiscal year as part of efforts to earmark 43 trillion yen for the five-year defence build-up plan, ( read original story ...)

This month's U.N. biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn't the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through agreed targets. ( read original story ...)

The season arrived later than usual in the Japanese capital this year, but its foliage is particularly glorious — as seen in these specially commissioned snapshots taken earlier this week ... ( read original story ...)

Ubie, a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. This brings the health tech startup's total funding to $45. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks bounced back Friday as an increase in U.S. jobless claims raised hopes that interest rate hikes in the country could cea ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's environment ministry has announced plans to demonstrate the reuse of decontaminated soil from Fukushima at a Tokyo park. ( read original story ...)

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P. will be among the eight people who will join him on a flyby around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship next year. The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, ( read original story ...)

Some Japanese companies are using discarded foodstuffs to make entirely different products — and help save a bit of the planet in the process. ( read original story ...)

The Nordic nation has been evaluating the possibility of a tie-up with Britain for a future combat air requirement, better known as Tempest, for several years but in recent months has cooled on the idea. ( read original story ...)

The United Kingdom, Italy and Japan have agreed on the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) for defense that allows them to develop a military plan to build new generation fighter aircraft. «GCAP will ... ( read original story ...)

Japan must stick to its target of a primary budget surplus by the 2025 fiscal year, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday, even as a planned increase in defence spending raises the spectre ... ( read original story ...)

The four-time Grand Slam winner stepped away from tennis for a few months in 2021 to seek mental health treatment ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese restaurant guide has named frozen food Japan's "dish of the year." According to the Gurunavi Research Institute, which runs a search engine for restaurants in Japan, the company chose ... ( read original story ...)

The SPD1 is meant to mitigate some of Japan's ongoing labor shortages as infrastructure ages and needs upgrades. ( read original story ...)

The fully electric Nissan Sakura and Mitsubishi eK Cross EV became the first-ever minicars to win the Japan Car of the Year today in Yokohama. ( read original story ...)